“Nomads of the Galaxy” –Unmoored, Rogue Planets May Outnumber Milky Way’s Stars
Imagine a galaxy filled with roaming, dark, lifeless island worlds – rogue, free-floating planets (FFPs) without the life-giving light of an alien host star. Welcome to the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers suggest that there may be more rogue planets than there are stars in the Milky Way.